The pandemic changed our mental health

The pandemic, it really helped us hone in on different things that we weren't previously working on.

[MUSIC PLAYING] How do you think the pandemic has shifted our understanding

of mental health issues? Do you think it's made them worse? And if so, how? I think what I've seen is as painful as the pandemic has

been for people, it really, really forced us to look at things that we weren't previously looking at.

There's just been this explosion of interest in mental health and people learning more about mental health. I mean, it's just been a really wonderful thing

to be able to see that. Even though the pandemic was really painful, it forced us to deal with situations that we previously

weren't dealing with, weren't really looking at. It also caused us to learn how to be creative with different ways that we resolve things.

I think that we only had a very one-track way of dealing with situations. And then when the pandemic hit and everything

got stripped away from us, we needed to start being creative and learning how to deal with things in a different way.